How Fidget Spinners Became a Hula Hoop for Generation Z

Posted: Tuesday, May 9, 2017

One "horrible" summer in 1993, unable to play with her daughter Sara, then 7, because of her myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disorder that causes muscle weakness, a Florida inventor named Catherine Hettinger invents a prototype of a fidget spinner as way to bond with her daughter, Ms. Hettinger recently told The Guardian. (Williams, The New York Times)